The flu (and pneumonia) is actually the 8th leading cause of death in the US. The first two leading causes of death are heart disease and cancer, with more than 10x the number of deaths than the flu. Both of these can be caused by smoking.

Heart disease: 631,636
Cancer: 559,888
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
Diabetes: 72,449
Alzheimer's disease: 72,432
Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344
Septicemia: 34,234
From the CDC

I think he was saying that his videocard is unstable unless he overclocks it

You're kidding right?

Valve specifically tailors their games to the low end of the hardware market, similar to Blizzard. The HL2 engine is DX9, not 10, and runs great on a huge range of hardware... including and most specifically store-bought PCs with stock videocards and processors.

If I recall correctly, there are only two games on the market designed for the PhysX PPU (both of which have GRAW in their title). Not to mention that the Half-Life 2 engine specifically uses the Havok SDK as opposed to the PhysX SDK.

There might be a mac gaming market (I sincerely doubt it) to promote, but don't generalize about the established PC market if you don't know what you're talking about.

No, I'm just out of the office this week.